WAR PRISONERS
101,000 Liberated In Camp
Near Munich
NEW ZEALAXDERS INCLUDED
Rec. l'p.m
LONDON, April 30.
A total of 101,000 Allied prisoners of war were liberated to-day at Mossburg, 25 miles north-east of Munich, by the Third Army's Fourteenth Armoured Division, stated the Associated Press correspondent. He added that this was reported to be Germany's biggest prisoner of war camp. The prisoners included Americans, Britons, Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, Russians, French and Serbs and some war correspondents. No names are yet available.
Third Army forces also discovered a vast gas depot with 95,000 poison gas bombs in woods 13 miles south of Regensburg and captured officers and men at the dump.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 101, 1 May 1945, Page 6
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